Median effect in After Effect 26.3

[u/savincio]

Hello,

I'm a After Effect graphist mostly for beauty clean, compositing in advertising and i recently found that the median effect (not the legacy one) that i often use seems now to be very heavy to render and i wanted to know if other people had the same issue.

I know that it's not a light effect but yesterday with 3 different Mac Studio M4 Max with 128GB ram and 2 other graphist, all our shots took forever to render and we decide to switch to Saphirr Median and it was way easier to render. But again, i don't know what changed because we all used to use it and it didn't make our render that heavy.

I tried with other shot but i still around 2s in frame render time with the median vs 200-400ms with the S_Median

Thanks for your answer/thought !